Collections: Asian Art: Pine of Success and Oumayagashi, Asakusa River, No. 61 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

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Pine of Success and Oumayagashi, Asakusa River, No. 61 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

• Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando), Japanese, 1797-1858
• Medium: Woodblock print
• Place Made: Japan
• Dates: 8th month of 1856
• Period: Edo Period, Ansei Era
• Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 9 5/16in. (36.2 x 23.7cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 x 9 5/16 in. (36.2 x 23.7 cm) Image: 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (33.9 x 22.2 cm)
• Collections: Asian Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 30.1478.61
• Credit Line: Gift of Anna Ferris
• Image: Overall, 30.1478.61_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006
Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858). Pine of Success and Oumayagashi, Asakusa River, No. 61 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 8th month of 1856. Woodblock print, 14 1/4 x 9 5/16in. (36.2 x 23.7cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 x 9 5/16 in. (36.2 x 23.7 cm) Image: 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (33.9 x 22.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.61 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 30.1478.61_PS1.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: This scene shows the Ouayabashi Ferry, its name taken from the landing (not shown here- see print 105 of the series) on the Sumida River. The distant horizon is bright yellow, indicating the warmth of an early summer starlit evening. The pine tree shown here, one of the more famous, is the Pine of Success, at the end of the middle pier of the Asakusa rice granary. At the lower left is a roofed pleasure boat. Looking closely, it is possible to make out the silhouette of a woman's head and shoulders behind the lowered blind; the under printing of the silhouette is in a lighter green than that of the blind itself. A moral ordinance had prohibited lowering the green blinds of the pleasure boat except for poor weather, but this did not appear to be strictly enforced by the time this print appeared in 1856.